What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • Kairos
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    23 months ago

    Can custom ROMs hide hotspotting?

    • @Fondots@lemmy.world
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      43 months ago

      I don’t know the current state of things, it’s probably more than 10 years since I’ve bothered with rooting and custom rooms and such.

      But back then I remember my phone company tried to make me pay extra for tethering and there were a few tricks using root to get around it. I think there were a few apps out there that would work on the stock room that needed root, and I think it just worked out of the box with a custom ROM.

      IIRC, at that time, my carrier had disabled the tethering options in the phone settings, and to tether you had to use their pre-installed app. My memory may be fuzzy on that though.

      • Kairos
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        13 months ago

        Neat

        • LoudWaterHombre
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          23 months ago

          Yes, if you spend a little time on it you can slowly phase out all of the fucked up software with better alternatives. I could also help you if you have questions.

          • Kairos
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            13 months ago

            I was planning on getting a pixel with Graphene OS because that’s the only one that seems reasonable.

    • @Zikeji@programming.dev
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      13 months ago

      Yes and no. A custom kernel with a patch usually referred to as a “ttl fix” can, but a good amount of ROMs have that in their kernel by default.